Episode 139: Good Sci Fi Nerd Stuff

In this Episode:

• Amazon bans police use of facial recognition technology for one year
• IBM is exiting the face recognition business
• This bricklaying robot can construct a house in 48 hours
• Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun
• Battery giant CATL ready to make million-mile, 16-year batteries for more than Tesla
• Twitter Locks Account That Posts Trump’s Tweets Verbatim After Less Than 3 Days
• Twitter to launch a revamped verification system with publicly documented guidelines
• SoftBank-backed Lemonade files to go public
• Elon Musk says Starship is SpaceX's 'top priority' from now on

Weird and Wacky:

• Someone paid $2.6 million in fees to move $134 worth of crypto and oops
• Man tormented by mystery pizza deliveries to his house for almost a decade
• A treasure chest hidden in the Rocky Mountains for a decade has finally been found
• A teen who spent 10 hours cleaning up after a protest is rewarded with a car and a college scholarship

Links:

• Twitter to launch a revamped verification system with publicly documented guidelines | TechCrunch
• Forrest Fenn treasure chest hidden in Rocky Mountains for 10 years has finally been found - CNN
• IBM is exiting the face recognition business - Axios
• Battery giant CATL ready to make million-mile, 16-year batteries for more than Tesla
• Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun | MIT Technology Review
• Amazon bans police use of facial recognition technology for one year